1959 view of a staircase at Old City Hall. From 1946 to 1957, Workman was host of the popular Old Dominion Barn Dance music radio show, broadcast nationally on Saturday nights on WRVA from the Lyric Theater in downtown Richmond. Witnesses told investigators the victim was shot in a confrontation that began as an argument between him and another person. In January 1953, Richmond city workers painted lane lines on Cowardin Avenue using a new power-driven machine. The playground received the Quonset hut, a semicircular structure made out of corrugated metal, in 1947 after city officials authorized using $15,000 to erect it. Police said a 65-year-old man was also injured in the shooting and was airlifted to a hospital with critical injuries. It quickly became a center of extracurricular activities for area children. According to an accompanying article, square dancing was enjoying a revival at the time. According to the story, in about 1922, the 6-year-old son of a preacher-farmer in Powhatan County kept eating persimmons one day until he developed a stomachache and was brought to the hospital. On June 13, 1951, a tornado struck Richmond, causing massive damage in its 4-mile path of destruction --including a truck crushed by a fallen tree at Belvidere and Franklin streets downtown. The area was enduring a three-week dry spell at the time. By 1946, the church received a permit to construct a new building on the site of the Church House. This April 1951 image shows the Richmond skyline as seen from the south end of the Lee Bridge. The men used the hot boxes at the Richmond YMCA, which could be set to 115 degrees and could leave the body cleansed and refreshed. Police say they're looking for at least 2 . The office was closed in April 1953. At the time, Judy was one of the most promising skaters in the Richmond area and was working to master some of the most difficult tasks of the rink. 1 to victory in the 20-lap championship race. In May 1956, area residents enjoyed a refreshing swim in the James River a reprieve from record high temperatures during the spring month. In spring 1950, work was scheduled to begin to widen this south end of the North Boulevard railroad overpass. RICHMOND, Calif. (KGO) -- Richmond police now say they are looking for at least two suspects in a shooting rampage that killed three people and injured five others last night outside a house party. In July 1953, tennis players (from left) Cliff Miller, Al Dickinson and Bob Figg Sr. discussed the Country Club of Virginias annual tennis competition, which began the day before. In May 1958, Bill Shockley of Greenville, S.C., spun out in an eight-lap midget auto heat on the half-mile dirt track at the State Fairgrounds. Admission was $1 per game for adults and 50 cents for students. Investigators said a 30-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting. RICHMOND, Calif. - Gun violence claimed two lives and injured a third person in Richmond on Monday. This December 1952 image shows East Broad Street in downtown Richmond at night. Wiltshire, 85, prepared for spring planting at her home on Patterson Avenue in Richmond. Brown & Co., a furniture store on Hull Street in South Richmond. Also Monday, police announced an arrest in a homicide that occurred Saturday in Southside Park at S. 6th St. and Virginia Ave. In October 1951, Mrs. R.L. The 1st Precinct station required major repairs and would have cost about $4,000 per year to maintain. A view of East Broad Street in downtown Richmond on a cloudy day in October 1954. The Cavaliers trounced the Gobblers 38-7. The names of victims in Mondays shootings have not yet been released. Everybody who farms has to make every kind of gadget he can for himself, Welch said. Richmond schools were not integrated until 1970. In December 1952, while baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb was in Richmond for sightseeing and duck hunting, he took time to speak to reporters about his recent articles in Life magazine disparaging modern baseball as lacking the individual skill his era demanded. The Dec. 6, 1953, edition of The Times-Dispatch included a photo spread on the Southern Biscuit Co., whose products under the Famous Foods of Virginia brand established the company as one of America's largest producers of cookies and crackers. Police are searching for the. Here, a city flusher washed snow and slush from Broad Street downtown. 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He enlisted the aid of the fire department and its tallest extension ladder to get fresh angles on historic landmarks, including the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue. One driver reported waiting eight hours to unload his truck. It took more than 15 years after this image was taken until the last of the structures was removed. It still houses offices, laboratories and classrooms for Virginia Commonwealth Universitys medical campus. Anyone who witnessed the shooting or has any other information is asked to contact Detective Aaron Mandell at 510-621-1269 or at AMandell@RichmondPD.net. Alcutts death was one of three resulting from shootings on the same day. In September 1950, ground was broken for the South Richmond Health Center at 14th and Bainbridge streets. In November 1950, farmer Ray Welch of Northumberland County used his homemade portable corn elevator. On Nov. 3, 1950, Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck addressed the Virginia Teachers Association and Virginia Education Association in separate sessions; the VTA was a black organization. Here, Virginia's Jim Bakhtiar (feet in air) rolled into the end zone in the first quarter for the first of his four touchdowns. 1998 - 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. | All Rights Reserved. The granite arch span, most of which can still be seen today, was built in the 1820s at a cost of just over $2,000. The second victim, a 65-year-old Richmond man, was transported by ambulance to a local trauma center in critical condition. Pomeroy said. In June 1953, James R. Osterbind posed for a photo during his workday at Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond. This January 1953 image shows houses on Belvidere Street in Richmond, as seen near Rowe Street, which were to be taken by the city for a proposed war memorial. In July 1958, George Richardson of Richmond glided along the Rappahannock River in his yacht, Hummingbird. RICHMOND, Va. -- Richmond Commonwealth's Attorney Colette McEachin has chosen not to release a dozen records related to an alleged July 4th mass shooting plot, despite the fact that her office . | What's making news across Richmond region on Tuesday, Son shoots mom in apparent murder-suicide, Richmond police say, 'They haven't told us anything:' Family of dead Richmond City inmate speaks out, 2 found dead in South Richmond on Saturday, Top Ukrainian officials among 18 killed in helicopter crash near Kyiv, The world'soldest known person, French nun Lucile Randon, dead at 118, Going solar in the new year | 8@4 presented by Massey Cancer Center, French Guiana: The center of drug smuggling to Europe. In January 1958, an explosion at Merchants Ice & Cold Storage Co. at Sixth and Byrd streets in downtown Richmond killed seven people and shattered windows up to seven blocks away. Authorities did not immediately identify the woman, who is the city's. In October 1950, Virginia Randolph attended the cornerstone-laying ceremony for a $262,000 addition to the former one-room schoolhouse in Glen Allen that she started in 1892 and that was named for her. Here, he greeted a crowd of 25,000 from his train in Petersburg, the last stop before heading to Richmond for his sixth speech of the day. The victim of a fatal shooting in Richmond on Monday has been identified by the Contra Costa County Coroner's Office as Demetra Brock, 50, of Richmond. The shooting happened around 8:30 a.m. in the Hilltop area of Richmond. Two killed, one injured in shootings in Richmond Monday, Mountain lion sighted in backyard of Hercules home, Booker T. Anderson Community Center restoration project hits delays, Richmond police patrol activity report Jan. 9-12, Kaiser volunteers partner with Urban Tilth for MLK Day of Service, Apply now for Chevron Richmonds Black history awareness scholarship, Kaiser recruiting next generation of marriage and family therapists, Window on Wetlands underscores importance of healthy marshes, Richmond firefighters answered 42 calls per day in 2022. In addition to winning a trip to the Miss Virginia contest in Roanoke the next month, Allen received a silver bowl, a $200 scholarship, jewelry and cosmetics. Air Force members and volunteers staffing the Richmond filter station began plotting sightings of planes as they were called in. City safety official John Hanna called the intersection the most complicated we have had to redesign and signalize in the past 14 years.. Lewis Ginter built the dam in the 1890s to connect Lakeside Park to the Lakeside Wheel Club. Three men are dead, and one hospitalized, and four others treated and released after an all-day party on Richmond's Dunn Avenue was interrupted by gunfire just before 11 p.m. VIDEO: 3 killed, 5 injured in shooting at Richmond party. Emergency crews took him to a hospital, where he died from his injuries, Pomeroysaid. The station was formed in 1948 as the Glenwood Farms Fire Department, serving the Mechanicsville Turnpike area. In April 1951, W.H. Bellona was built in 1816 by the U.S. government as an Army post, and the nearby foundry supplied the military in the antebellum era. The 14-year-olds were attending summer school in the Richmond area. RICHMOND, CA - JUNE 21: Blood stained gauze bandages and rubber gloves are found on the street in front of a home on the 2100 block of Dunn Avenue in Richmond, Calif., on Monday, June 21, 2021. In 1929, operating again as a gristmill, the property became known officially as the Swift Creek Mill and remained in operation until 1956. In October 1958, chemists Owen R. Blackburne (left) and Bill Simmons distilled volatile acids at the Richmond Sewage Disposal headquarters near Rocketts Landing. Pictured are Eddie Shumate, 18, with Rowena Grisso, 16, at the far end; 11-year-old Howard Taylor is not pictured. In August 1956, Criglersville general store owner Robert H. Gibbs served customer Lindsay Utz while they discussed topics of the day. Robinson turned to dancing and singing when he stopped boxing in 1952 but resumed fighting in 1955 when his entertainment career waned. For several decades in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Fonticello Lithia water company advertised the medicinal properties of the spring water and sold it bottled starting at 20 cents per gallon. J.G. The following year, the church decided to move to River Road; the former building has since been torn down. Now home to the local theater, the site was built in 1663 as a gristmill and changed hands and functions many times over the centuries, according to the theater's history. Duvals pills, part of a trio of 30-inch granite Turkish cannonballs, in its new location at John Marshall High School at Eighth and Marshall streets in Richmond. In September 1950, Sherry Gilman placed a letter in a barrel-turned-mailbox on Honaker Avenue in Richmond. The club had a longer history, having been first organized in October 1902. The station was formed in 1948 as the Glenwood Farms Fire Department, serving the Mechanicsville Turnpike area. The truck was occupying what used to be the front yard of a house in the 6500 block. By compiled by East Bay Times. This one was instead saved with a move out of the way of downtown traffic. Aaron Pomeroy said Antonio Wright had at. In March 1950, four girls played jump-rope in a Richmond city park. It opened as the Lubin in 1909, became the Regent briefly in 1916 before changing name to the Isis in the same year. In October 1952, University of Richmond cross country coach Fred Hardy trained his runners team captain Bill Jordan set the pace ahead of a meet against Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. At about 4 p.m., one man was killed and another man injured in a drive-by shooting in the area of 5th Street and Macdonald Avenue, police said. This October 1951 image shows Forest Hill Presbyterian Church, with its new attached building at right. In May 1951, Richmond was preparing to raise the daily sanitation tax on street vendors at the Sixth and 17th Street markets from 10 cents per day to 25. Childress coonhound won best of breed at the Virginia Kennel Clubs 17th annual dog show at the Atlantic Rural Exposition fairgrounds. The warning signs your tree may fall during next storm, 18 killed in helicopter crash near Kyiv, Ukraine, including children, 225 passengers evacuated from ACE train due to Niles Canyon mudslide. Officers responded to Steeles residence at 12:23 p.m. for reports of a shooting in the 5000 block of Charles City Road. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Anyone with information is asked to contact Richmond police or CrimeStoppers. In September 1958, a Chesterfield County farmer welcomed the sight of rain clouds, though they didnt yield any rain. This June 1950 image shows the former Westwood Circle in Richmond, a traffic circle at the intersection of North Boulevard, Hermitage Road and Westwood Avenue. The buildings to be demolished were to the right of Diggs & Beadles Seed Co. Inc. In our opinion, this was absolutely targeted, Pomeroy said. Tornado felled trees in front of Commonwealth Club on Franklin St., June 13, 1951. Investigators were following up on leads, but there were no arrests at this time, Pomeroy said. The marble fountain, donated by an anonymous Baltimore woman in 1909 in memory of a Confederate cavalry captain buried in Hollywood Cemetery, still sits in front of The Martin Agency. Here, train engineer Mr. Denton got orders from stationmaster Mr. Boykin. In May 1952, new policewoman Martha S. Jackson placed one of her first tickets on an illegally parked car. Today, the lake is in on the grounds of Jefferson Lakeside Country Club. "I freaked out. The company dated to the 1880s. This November 1956 image shows Richmond disc jockey Alden Aaroe, who started in radio in 1938 and landed his signature morning show on WRVA in 1956. This 1950 image shows part of the Bellona Arsenal property in Chesterfield County. In December 1951, the Staples Mill Pond froze, giving people the chance to dust off their ice skates and have some fun. Please subscribe to keep reading. In May 1950, three members of the Thomas Jefferson High School cadet corps completed their daily flag ritual. In June 1951, the summer heat sent crowds to Pocahontas State Park in Chesterfield County for a swim. The local baseball team drew more than 18,500 fans in total for single games on Friday and Saturday and the Sunday double-header. In January 1957, Mrs. Hunter Jones hitched a ride behind a ski plane that was visiting Chesterfield Countys Parnell Field, which opened in March 1946 as the first postwar airport in the Richmond area. Forristal, seated beside the driver, remained head of the station, and white members who waved to their colleagues were transferred. Both were pronounced dead at the scene in South Richmond. Reynolds spent more than $150,000 on landscaping, including more than 10,000 trees, shrubs and plants as well as a green house that supplied fresh flowers for the building. In January 1954, shoppers waited for buses in the snow on Broad Street in downtown Richmond. The uncle of one of those killed told ABC7 News, the gathering was what is known as a Marimba party, a Guatemalan music and dance party. Tobacco, textiles, newsprint, machinery and steel were among many products that came into or exited the terminal on cargo ships. There were festivities planned all over town, including a party at the SPCA, a television special put on by local labor unions and holiday activities at area hospitals. Rick Hurd has covered breaking news, crime and public safety since 2011 after spending 16 years covering sports, including the A's and Sharks. Of the surviving victims, 1 in critical condition, 1 in fair condition, 3 released. That year, fall suits were on sale for $11, and dresses for only $5.44. In December 1955, pedestrians scurried across a busy Broad Street at Fourth Street in downtown Richmond as Christmas shopping was in full swing. RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) -A man has been hospitalized in Richmond after a shooting in Richmond's northside Thursday evening. In March 1956, jazz trumpeter Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong and his All-Stars played a concert at the Mosque, along with Woody Herman and his Third Herd. In October 1950, the Benedictine Cadet Corps adopted new uniforms. Clary of Engine Co. 1 welcomed some friends on the firetruck: Smokie Jr. and Back Tap, a pair of Dalmatians. All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents! The next year, it was turned over from the Glenwood Farms Civic Association to Henrico County. In October 1953, Mary Workman (holding music stand), better known as Sunshine Sue, sang with her band. The children were taken to the hospital in both instances but survived the shootings. Open on weekends. The building still stands unoccupied. In August 1954, members of the Richmond Civic Ballet rehearsed for an upcoming performance. 7. From left are Margaret Jones, Betty Evans and Anita Hagopian. Steele was found with an apparent gunshot wound and transported to an area hospital, where he died, said police. 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